Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Composed by candle-light; pertaining to nocturnal study or serious thought.
Wiktionary
- adj. Composed by candlelight, or at night.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.
Etymologies
- Latin lucubratorius. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And by close application to my book at night, my visage became considerally emaciated by extreme perspiration, having no lucubratory aparatus, no candle, no lamp, nor even light-wood, being chiefly raised in oaky woods.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lucubratory’.
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The Chandlery
Candles, candle-making; photometry, and a couple of oily fish used as light sources.
Paschal candle, unity candle, Turmleuchter, Julleuchter, menora, candle warmer, candle tree, altar candle, stiffener, tealight, votive candle, prayer candle and 135 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2031 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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moominword's list
an ontography
saltatory, chawbacon, omnifarious, confused, salvific, capitulate, attrition, gaffe, bailiwick, salubrious, spontaneous, enfeoff and 45 more...
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List
ullage, apotropaic, revenant, chiaroscuro, ablution, quixotic, mercurial, chicanery, convolute, verisimilitude, halcyon, miasma and 27 more...
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My Favorite Words
List of my favorite words.
psychedelic, paroxysm, brazen, pragmatic, albeit, asinine, lucubratory, ominous, verisimilitude, vicissitude, timocracy, plutocracy and 13 more...
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the dog's bark
woof...
grammaticaster, bunfight, lucubratory, tittuppy, smithereens, debonair, limpet, rivulet, palaver, turd, galligaskins, pluvious and 5 more...
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Good to know
when I can't find just the right word for it...
remplissage, rabblement, lucifugous, remolino, grammaticaster, lucubratory, homonym, alluvial, macula, vitiate, convalescent, wamble and 13 more...
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Charming
For various reasons.
taghairm, noctuary, autumnal, zephyr, ouroboros, schadenfreude, Zeitgeist, necrosis, glasnost, rhotic, plethora, eunoia and 25 more...
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Words for D
either describe D or would be good in his writings!
despumate, eisegesis, badaud, saccharine, heartsease, ineffable, manship, maven, risible, literati, crimson, pugilist and 41 more...
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Little-used words
penetralia, sanctum sanctorum, Svengali, nepheliad, inamorata, lunula, sui generis, ambrosial, jornada, boreal, ablution, pastiche and 3 more...
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New to me words
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Fun
Fun meanings
Tweets
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EAMHarris Lucubratory is a new word for me. A special word for 'composed by candlelight' – fab. Do we also have a word for 'composed by electric light'? or torchlight, firelight, daylight? Nov 15, 2012